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We were at a reunion event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the school that Adria and I attended and from which we graduated long ago. I ran into a classmate of mine—Denny, the guy who ran the hundred for the high school back when it was a hundred yards and not a hundred meters. I recalled the story of a race that we once ran, he and I. A 220. I had been running some and thought I should test myself against someone like Denny. We walked out to the track and got down in the start position. Someone said, “Go,” and we went. All I saw were the bottoms of Denny’s running shoes. When he crossed the finish line, I had barely made it to the curve half way through the course. Our passage this morning describes a race something like that. The one who is way ahead is Jesus. The writer of Hebrews says, “Watch him. You will learn how to run.”